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Lady Penelope
When I worked near Wubin in Western Australia, I met a very sweet lady She was about 77 years old, and she drove a pink Volkswagon convertible, in mint condition. Her real name was Penny, she had a room at the pub and every night, she would tell a story of her past. If you said you had visited a place, she said she knew it intimately, she said she had been everywhere. She also said she was connected to royalty.
Now Penny, loved attention, but what she loved more than anything was to drive down the main street of Wubin, in her bright pink car, at exactly 12 noon each day, waving to everyone. She would drive very slowly about 20klm per hour, and if you didn't wave to her, she would honk the car horn until you did.
Also she didn't do a normal wave, she did it like the queen does it. We gave her the name of Lady Penelope, and she loved it. I really didn't care whether what she said was true or not, I might have thought at the time that it was just another local who has had two much sun. But during the late years of her life, I know she brought a smile to a lot of people, and probably wonderment to tourists
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